Our friend Alex Höffken has friends in Hamburg, that friends recently created a new group called "NUMBE:RA". Alex gave me the advice to check their new EP "Something in Between" and the first thing i recognized was the name of Frank Nitt in one of the song titles (just sayin). Get your foretaste above. Great music.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

As per usual Danny snaps on a UK track, this one, “Jealousy”,
composed by The Purist. A haunting track, a Biggie Sample and a JJ
Reddick shout out. 3 of the four major food groups. Catch this one on
the Purist’s upcoming “Tr-ill” EP

Friday, January 18, 2013

Planet Asia, Tristate, and Killer Ben are Durag Dynasty. "Durag Dynasty Theme" is taken from the group's debut album "360 Waves", produced entirely by Alchemist and will be released on March 12th 2013.

Git Craft is off GIT Beats album Sampler "BASEMENT GHOST" with appearances by SEAN PRICE, AZ, BWHITE, BEEDIE, HUBBS, SHABAAM SAHDEEQ & MORE. The album is available since the 1st of january vioa Usedwax. Buy°rol

Uptown XO continues to offer raw emotive rhymes that open windows
to his world. The cold, gun toting exterior often belies the humanity
behind it all. XO offers a story not unlike many with scarface dreams
born of section 8, but fresh in its minutia the way only truth can be.
The disection of this textured story's cycle from evictions as a youth
to the echos from the fridge; from the sales of kush in orange bubbles,
to the understanding of how it employs the lawyers, the judges, the DA,
and the jail workers; - all poignantly wrapped in the phrase "damn, ni&&as just didn't want to flip burgers." Earnest reflection over ill production. The sometimes morbid take on life culminates with the mantra "I got mouths to feed till they put flowers on me."

The homie Rejoicer was recently in Berlin and we enjoyed his new solo album and i can tell you there is some dopeness on the way. Enjoy the Raw Tapes insight for 2013 above and visit the Bandcamp site for further infos and releases.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Of BURNTmd's forthcoming album The Green Invasion,
the now Colorado resident releases "Opium Guide," which serves as an
ode to other like minded emcees that are on a similar path of
enlightenment. Produced by Reef Ali, the musing craftwork is
complemented by Europe's former DMC Champion DJ Grazzhopp.